The divine word advises us to offer gifts to God, in order to show us His infinite goodness, as if He hadn’t given us anything beforehand and was receiving our offerings as gifts and attributing it entirely to us. In this way, He shoes that His goodness towards us is great and inexpressible, since He accepts as ours things which are His, but which we’ve offered. He says that He owes us, as if these things weren’t His in any case.
On Saturday, November 3/16, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of St. George the Great Martyr and Trophy-bearer at his...
he Holy Synod of the Church of Greece at its meeting on September 4th, 2019, decided to hold, through the...
The civil administrator of Mount Athos, Athanasios Martinos, paid a visit to the representatives of the Esphigmenou Monastery in...
The Patriarch of Georgia calls on the Patriarch of Russia to not intrude on the canonical territory of the...
But wealth, someone may say, bring honor to those who possess them, and give them the power to take...
JOHN’S NEW WAY OF LIFE John was now a novice at Vatopaidi. Although he was quite young, he was not...
His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has released his Christmas Fast Encyclical. Read the full text below: The...
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev joined celebrations of the feast of the Zographou Monastery, the Bulgarian monastery in Mount Athos, on...
Mount Athos has had a beneficial impact on the Orthodox community centuries on end and I hope that its relations...
Patriarchate of Georgia calls for ‘immediate release’ of Georgian doctor from Tskhinvali custody and releases the following statement. ‘We are...
UK Christian religious freedom charity Release International has shifted their focus to Pakistan on this year’s International Day of Prayer...
On November 15 and 16, the International Day for Tolerance, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II...
Metropolitan Athanasios “separates his position in commemorating the name of Epiphany” and recognizes only His Beatitude Onuphry as head of...
With great joy, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia participated at the 60th anniversary dinner of the Cretan Association of...
The fear of God exists when you love Him with all your heart and struggle never to affront or distress Him, not only through your actions but also through your thoughts. You try to please him with everything you do and say. This is the fear of God: fear that you might do anything to distress or affront our Father.
Lakkoskiti (Romanian: Schitul Lacu) is the short form name of a small “monastic village” consisting the idiorrhythmic “skete of Aghiou...
The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, spoke by phone on Friday with the...
On Saturday, November 16, 2019, Bishop Sevastianos invited clergy and lay leaders from the Coastal Conference to meet at Holy...
Participants of the 2nd Summit of World Religious Leaders in Baku, Azerbaijan, were introduced to the welcoming speech of Catholicos-Patriarch...
